pluck, pull, tear, deplume, deplumate, displume
(verb) strip of feathers; “pull a chicken”; “pluck the capon”
deplume, displume
(verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
displume (third-person singular simple present displumes, present participle displuming, simple past and past participle displumed)
To deprive of feathers or plumes.
To strip of an award.
• impulsed
Source: Wiktionary
Dis*plume", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Displumed; p. pr. & vb. n. Displuming.] Etym: [Pref. dis- + plume: cf. OF. desplumer, F. déplumer.]
Definition: To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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